Sunday, August 18, 2013

Why Finland's public schools are so successful.

The Sunday Edition CBC: Micheal Enright speaks to Finland's education guru, Dr Pasi Sahlberg, about how the country's egalitarian, low-stress model has helped Finnish students reach for the top.

photo: Teemu Vehkaoja
Dr. Pasi Sahlberg, "...children's job is play...to be good in play means that you have a mind, you have an imagination, you have power that you can use through these things, you also have to have time to practice these things...Early Child Development Services be...non educational or non instructional, it is filled with music, and play, and drama...learning to be with other people rather than learning letters and numbers and school like things..."